Recent content by grandiddykane

my stance on this is to take what you get. don't like it? drop it. it's what i do. but what i do not do is leave reviews under books giving them one star reviews because they sucked and were predictable like other people tend to do. and the reason is this. the only reason you find the story...

i respectfully doubt your doubt for this reason. what does it take to become mainstream? the people's approval, right? and what do the people approve of? as the second and fourth reply to this thread stated, not a lot of people care for originality, let alone in its complete form. so what does...

you and i are talking about two different people. i'm talking about people who actually care about originality in their stories. and no, i'm not even talking about a completely fresh take, just the same ole, same ole with a twist, as you said. but you have to admit that even with that, not...

what makes something cliche? no, seriously. can someone please, in their own words, define that for me? i'm having a little trouble narrowing down its meaning myself. here's where i'm having trouble: if i'm not mistaken, isn't the air we breathe cliche? or the water we drink, as well? i'm dead...

i don't understand why they had to move the thread. i posted it in artists, requests section and that's exactly what i did, request that artists change their ways.

reason i liked this is because it was simple and to the point, and because there were no reservations, unlike the person i quoted who agreed with me. still appreciate them though.

writing is an underappreciated artform, and there's nothing we writers can ever do to bridge that gap between us and artists. what would you have us do? are we supposed to color our words red and blue and include 3D glasses inside of every book? or make it so that every letter is a different...

best comment. but my advice is you should delete that comment of yours before someone *wink, wink* catches on.

yeah, i know. not exactly what i specified for in this thread. i as well also watched the first episode of the tv show and dropped it not even halfway through. but their was something that caught me; a feeling of some missed potential, so my thinking was the book could most likely (hopefully)...

yes, the rating on the first book, as i checked on goodreads, was quite low (normally, i'd do only above 3.95) but i figured it was because of the things you just said. which is why i'm also going to check out the magician by lev grossman. its rated super low but i figure that's only due to a...

last response. i don't understand the point you're trying to illustrate with that first sentence of yours, but no need to clarify on it as this will be my last response. hopefully you could answer this in a way that doesn't require me to come back to your post, but exactly what reimbursement...

:( thanks for the suggestion. glad you suggested a novel, novel. i'm just now getting into those. haven't read any yet but so far i've accrued a long list of tbr. what the hell happened to my post? ah well, i guess i'll have to retype it from memory. basically what i said was that i checked...

why do giveaways exist? those people, the ones who entered the giveaway did nothing to deserve what's being given away, yet they still are allowed to reap the benefits of possibly walking away with something they never once thought they could afford themselves. how is that possible? and tell...

i'll respond to this one even though you don't agree with me because you seem less hostile and generally nicer (lmao). first let me just start off by saying i'm not asking anyone to do anything for me. in fact, i came to this site with the intent of picking something out to read as i'd already...

do i get an award?